Poetry | Makena Metz

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Say Less - Flare Magazine, Issue 5
Debut Chapbook “Through My Marrow” – Bottlecap Press
Explaining my Chronic Illness and Avian Timekeeping – The Blunt Space, Defiance and Dialogue, “Redefining Mentality,” Vol 1, Issue 3

Treatment for My Bone Marrow - Radical Catalyst Journal, Vol 1. No 2, Autonomy Issue
Death - Flare Magazine, Special Issue 2: Health Scares
Vampire - Magnets and Ladders, Fall/Winter Issue
Meet Our Contributor Highlight - the Philly Chapbook Review
Charlatan, Electricity and Ice, and Langauge - the Philly Chapbook Review, Featured Poet, Summer Issue
Third Degree - Reprinted with Boudin, Retro Summer Issue
Third Degree - HNDL Magazine, Summerween, Horror Mini Issue, Summer
What I Think When You Ask Me How I’m Doing - Breath & Shadow, Spring - Vol. 22, Issue 2
Tattoo, On the Edge, 19 – The Blunt Space, Defiance & Dialogue Issue 2: Bodily Autonomous
Surgery - reprinted with t'ART, Issue 10
Surgery - The Mid-Atlantic Review
Normal – Boudin, Blooms in Dusk Issue
When the Queen Orders Your Death and Grey – SpecPoVerse: An International Journal of Speculative Poetry, Issue 1
Tinder Match – Bare Back Magazine, Spring Issue

Infusion Center was published with The Bitchin’ Kitsch – Vol 15, Issue 1 and Trigger Point with The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Vol. 15, Issue 4.
The Orchard Tender was published with The Windward Review, “Myths and Hauntings” Vol. 21.
Wabi -Sabi Sick was published with The Post Grad Journal
The Desert was reprinted with Wordgathering, Winter Issue
What You Will Pay for His Life was published with Hellmouth, Issue 1.
Tingles and The Desert were reprinted with Spillway, Vol 2, Issue 30.
Chronically Ill Housekeeping was reprinted with Ouch! Collective, Vol 3.
Stairs was published with HNDL Magazine, Issue: Dream
Chaos, Organized and 412 Cherry Lane were published with HNDL Magazine, Issue 2: Horror
Save the Humans and I'm Not Strong, I'm Resilient were published with Dark Moon Rising, “Nature’s Triumphs” Issue
RX and When Did I Become the Girl were published with HNDL Magazine, Issue 2: Bold and Reflective

Chronically Ill Housekeeping – Free the Verse, Issue 8
Deep in the Forest – Arkana, Issue 15
Swimming and The Desert and Infusion Center Reprinted – Wishbone Words, Issue 12
Claws and Axe – Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
Equinox – Strange Horizons, Issue 18
The Bone Flute Sings – The Fantastic Other, Issue 7
Tingles and The Desert – PearTree Press, The Literary Hatchet #35
The MRI Machine is Like a Toaster – Wordgathering, Volume 17 Issue 1
Scales – The Short Story Portal – Short Edition
The Orchard Tender – Ouroboros Magazine, Spring Issue